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Alameda Community News Project: City Council to consider new development strategy for...
Excerpt: The City Council is set tonight to consider a proposed development strategy for Alameda Point, most of which is expected to be in the city’s hands by the end of this year. City officials want to divide the Point property into...
Added: Mar 20, 2012 at 6:10 AM
NEWS RELEASE FROM THE BRAC PMO PUBLIC AFFAIRS/COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE: NAVY DREDGING AT...
Excerpt: As described in a Fact Sheet published December 22, 2011, the Department of the Navy is currently performing dredging at the former Naval Air Station (NAS) Alameda Seaplane Lagoon (Site 17). The purpose of this work is to protect...
Added: Mar 17, 2012 at 8:05 AM
Excerpts from the VA’s Fiscal Year 2013 Congressional Budget Request in regards to...
Excerpts from the Department of Veterans Affairs Fiscal Year 2013 Congressional Budget Request: Project Location Alameda Point, CA “This project received $17.33M in 2011 budget authority to begin project planning with a total estimated...
Added: Mar 16, 2012 at 3:50 PM
Alameda Community News Project: City, park district at odds over veterans' complex...
Excerpt: City and East Bay Regional Park District officials are at odds over a proposed deal that would move a planned veterans’ complex off property that has long served as a nesting area for the endangered California least tern and onto...
Added: Mar 16, 2012 at 6:32 AM
Alameda Journal: Tuskegee Airmen to be honored at Alameda's USS Hornet museum,...
Excerpt: The United States was two years into World War II when Burl Smith bumped into a friend from the Bay Area in the U.S. Army Air Corps base at Eglin Field in Florida. Smith had just finished training as an auto mechanic in a...
Added: Mar 15, 2012 at 4:16 PM
Times Herald: Vallejo WWII veteran to be part of Tuskegee Airmen recognition Saturday...
Excerpt: The USS Hornet Museum will pay tribute to several local veterans of the famed World War II Tuskegee Air Squadron on Saturday as part of its Living Ship Day. Capt. Edward Woodward of Vallejo will be among them. He joined the...
Added: Mar 15, 2012 at 5:38 AM
Golden Gate Audubon Society Action Alert: Alameda Wildlife Refuge, March 13, 2012
Excerpt: An 18-year-long conflict over a key Alameda breeding site for California Least Terns is close to a positive solution
Added: Mar 14, 2012 at 6:01 AM
Alameda Point Environmental Report: Groundwater cleanup back on track at heat treatment...
Excerpt: The groundwater remediation project between two buildings near the East Gate entrance, in the area known as Operating Unit 2B, finally got underway after a long delay in startup since last spring. During set up, one of the 30-...
Added: Mar 14, 2012 at 5:43 AM
San Francisco Chronicle: Judge's ruling makes Oak Knoll's future a mystery,...
Excerpt: Oak Knoll, the sweeping, picturesque Oakland hills property that once housed a storied Navy hospital, is once again in flux. As part of the huge Lehman Bros. bankruptcy proceedings, a federal judge recently granted control of...
Added: Mar 10, 2012 at 7:06 AM
Alameda Sun: East Bay Park District Spearheads Point Deal for NW Territories, March 8,...
Excerpt: It seemed as though the plans to build a veterans' facility at Alameda Point were moving full steam ahead. But no. Last year the project almost died until the East Bay Regional Park District stepped in to help. The $210 million...
Added: Mar 8, 2012 at 5:49 PM

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